Gainsborough Trinity 2 Altrincham 1 .

UniBond Premier League

5 November    2002.

Summary and other details by John Laidlar. His full report is in the Official Site by John Laidlar

Altrincham did not play well in a lacklustre first half but Gainsborough were not a lot better and it took a magnificent volleyed goal from Lee Ellington to separate the sides at the interval. Altrincham equalised after 55 minutes when Maddox hooked on a Rose pass to Thornley, who scored neatly at the back post. Peter Band got clear minutes later but did not hit the target when one-on-one with home goalkeeper, Richardson. However, Alty then had the better of the game until Trinity's Eshelby found some space just outside the box and drove home a slightly mis-hit shot, low to Acton's left (81 mins). Although Talbot headed against the outside of the post in the last minute, it was Altrincham's under-par first-half which ultimately cost them the game.

Gainsborough included two ex-Altrincham players, Chris Timons and Lee Ellington in their line-up. A third Gainsborough ex-Robin, Colin Alcide, had been allowed to join Exeter City earlier in the week. Making his second "debut" for Trinity was former Lincoln, Huddersfield and Plymouth centre-back Richard Logan, who returned to The Northolme this week. Altrincham fielded an unchanged side for the third successive game, whilst injured players Jason Gallagher, Danny Murphy and Neil Ryan watched from the main stand.

Not a good afternoon both from the result and the photographic point of view. There was very little action in the first half and in the second the lighting was so poor I gave up 15 minutes before the end. That meant I missed the interesting confrontation which occurred just in front of where I had been standing between the keeper, Rod Thornley, the players and the Alty fans  and the referee, who in the end decided nothing untoward had happened

Rod Thornley tracking No 5 who is ex-Alty player and captain Chris Timmons

Ian Craney in a race with trinity's captain Darren Knowles, Sean Smith is in third place.

From the other end. Gary Talbot jumps high to clear the ball

Rod Thornley is getting it in the neck from Dean Walling (No 4)

Peter Band and Mark Maddox up for a corner under the eye of  Chris Timmons (no 5)

Trinity's keeper Barry Richardson saves from Rod Thornley

A photograph from Andy Boyers, who is training to be a professional photographer,  showing what can be done when your camera takes good pictures at much lower light levels than mine. Andy's photos are taken with a conventional high quality camera, the film was developed, the photo printed, scanned and sent to me by e-mail. One interesting technical point is that  these scanned photos had to appear smaller on the web site to avoid excessive download times as compared to my photographs taken with a digital camera. Thanks Andy

Fans and players celebrate Rod Thornley's goal

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